Lanterns Drops Surprise Connection to Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern Movie

Lanterns has received a certain amount of flak online for being a bold, revisionist take on the Green Lantern mythos, when all the DC fandom has been asking for the past 15 years is to see the GL Corps treated faithfully on screen. However, in defense of the show’s creators, it’s easy to see why they thought they had to go down the gritty, grounded route. The last time the franchise tried to do an accurate adaptation of the source material, it ended up as one of the most notorious superhero movies of all time.